Illumination and Universal have announced a new untitled animated film about Manhattan pets for February 2016.
After promising that there would be a second original Illumination Entertainment film in 2016, the animation house and Universal Pictures have now proudly announced a new untitled project under the tentative working name of Pets.
From the studio that brought us the Despicable Me series comes a new potential animated franchise that will feature the vocal talents of Louis C.K. of Louie (and now American Hustle), Modern Family’s Eric Stonestreet, and the still riding-high Kevin Hart.
“Pets” will follow the lives of three Manhattan apartment building pets whose day begins when their owners leave for work in school. As they hang out, they’ll share tricks of the trade about begging for food and reveal their owners’ most humiliating secrets. However when a terrier (Louis C.K.) finds himself displaced with the introduction of a new mutt into the apartment named Duke (Stonestreet), the two find themselves at odds and soon on the street where they must team with a fast-talking bunny (Hart).
The project will mark the second animated film Hart has signed onto within a week of his Ride Along success, as he is also set to be heard in DreamWorks Animation’s Captain Underpants.
Pets will be released on February 12, 2016.
SOURCE: Deadline